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Orona, who was previously arrested in an El Paso bank robbery in 2009, allegedly told investigators that he committed the TFCU robbery last week because he wanted to go back to prison, according to a police criminal complaint obtained by the El Paso Times.

Orona faces a state robbery charge instead of a federal bank robbery charge. He is jailed under a $100,000 bond. Orona's middle name is spelled Renae and Rene in documents.

At 11 a.m. on Jan. 21, Orona walked up to a teller at the TFCU branch at 100 Village Court next to the police Westside Regional Command Center on Osborne Drive. According to the complaint, Orona asked the teller if the credit union was federally bonded. He then allegedly told the teller that it was a robbery and demanded money in small bills of ones, fives and tens.

Orona allegedly told the teller that he was not armed and told her to press the panic button, the complaint states. He was given an envelope with $498 and he waited for police to arrive.

Police officials said that TFCU employees escaping out a back door told officers that the robber was still inside. Officers entered the building and arrested Orona without incident.

In September 2009, El Paso police arrested Orona during a takeover-style robbery of the GECU at 11987 Rojas on the East Side, according to El Paso Times archives. Orona was allegedly armed with a loaded shotgun and had announced, "This is a robbery." Some of the people in the bank ran out a door before police entered and arrested Orona.

An FBI spokeswoman at the time said that Orona had "some suicidal tendencies."

Roberto R. Orona in 2009.(Photo: Courtesy El Paso Police Department)

The Federal Bureau of Prison shows that an inmate named Roberto Rene Orona was released from prison on Aug. 22, 2013.